then I can't play for 2 weeks... I don't get it, I guess it's considered a temporary HEAD START or something

What Tera does better than GW2 IMO:- Seemless Open world, no portals between zones- No Waypoints like GW2- Land Mounts (I think I prefer this over waypoints for immersion reasons, NO FLYING MOUNTS)- The BEST Brokerage/Auction House/Trade Post of any MMO ever. Listing items is SUPER fast, not glitchy, great- Automatically configured for FPS playstyle

What GW2 does better:- Graphics- Open world in general- Zone Immersion and relevance- No rooted combat

Tera has direct to town/city scrolls for every major place on the map that "only" cost 1g each, which isn't much by the time you are lvl.60in February Elites will get an "Atlas" which will allow them to fly anyplatform on the map... that takes longer than scrolls, but is cheaper.

i agree letting you play till the 16th, then not again till February wastotally retarded, given that they removed chronoscrolls from game,otherwise you could have farmed gold to extend your time in game.they also should have left chronoscrolls working so Founders coulduse game gold to become Elites when the update hits next month...

I would finish zerker, then use him as farmer to help fund lancer once you 60 in t.11/12 quest gear, don't upgrade anything on zerkbut +6 weapon, use gold to make a middle +6 t14 for your lancer.by that time you can decide if you'd rather use heavy set on zerk,or XP lancer for the waiting full +6 t.14 outfit you got ready. youwill probably stick with zerk, they are sooo much more fun now.

I was on for like 10 minutes. Channel chat seems to be happening even at 2 a.m. in the morning. Lots of just blah blah more than anything though. It might take some time to get back into. I found my zerker lacking compared to GW2.

the game gear grind in tera is more rewarding than most mmo's as it allows you to not only qualify and survive harder endgame content, but to do said content in smaller raid parties, thus allowing each participant a larger share of the drops, so in the long run the grind pays for itself. to those familiar with the game; when i was 60:150 i had to 8 man NT to survive, and be lucky if i got 100g worth of drops out of it. now at 60:160 i can 3 man NT without any risk at all, and my guaranteed share of the drops is valued at least to 500g - often more tera is less of a grind because it does not require you to craft - as often the most boring grind is securing enough components. while crafted gear is still better than full drop gear, the advantage is only by a few% margin - nothing a non-grind intending player would miss. the tera grind also help encourage more party dungeon play as some instances drop unique near equivilent outfits that may be desireable to different pvE and pvP type players.

is it easier for a warrior to tank - hell no. if you want an easy tank, play lancer(who can pull and hold aggro) or berzerker(who only holds aggro till someone else crits).

only a skilled player warrior can also tank - the warrior update made that possible... before all a warrior could do was avoid and dps. the problem with a warrior playing the tank roll is he can no longer dps much, because as the primary aggro he can't get behind the bam in order to crit reliably.

so under geared player still prefer a lancer, high geared players may prefer a warrior since the warrior can avoid/dps and not tank at all, since other high critting dps will keep pulling aggro off the tank anyway.

this is sort of like how low geared players like priests (where they need more heals), while high geared players like mystics (less heals needed, so they prefer the higher crits and crowd control a mystic makes possible).

you probably have a rename scroll in your game mail. when the servers merged back in november, higher level actives got priority over lower level dorment players - it's just tough luck, sorry. i even lost a name i took in prelaunch because i only got it to level 13, while someone on another server months later took that same name to 60. the best way to find out if a name is still taken is to use character creation and try each name you want on a new level 0, then delete that character and the name will be released for use within a minute, and you can then get it through your rename scroll on the higher level avatar you wanted it for. i'm not sure how the rename scroll resets if the names you try are already taken, but i guess you could try it that way too - i just don't like to risk it as i like trying a lot of different names to see which are still free, then pick amoung them. if you use the rename scroll, the moment you try a name that's free you are now stuck with it.